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Introduced by Rhiannon Lloyd

and women guide the plot '
Music by Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner, three composers whose work was significantly influenced by their relationship with three exceptional women, Harriet Smithson , Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein and Mathilde Wesendonk
The music is linked by excerpts from their letters and autobiographies: records

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Today Amaryllis Fleming presents listeners' record requests. Her guest caller at 10. 0* is violinist Isolde Menges

Introduced by Stephen Walsh
Jane Manning describes the repertoire and vocal technique of the new music singer.
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the death of Bax, CHRISTOPHER PALMER reviews a new book on him.
News from Sydney Opera House Marriage and Music: page 5

A recital of songs and duets by these two distinguished Swedish singers in The Dome at last year's Brighton Festival
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano) Kerstin Meyer (mezzo-soprano) with GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano) Purcell Sound the trumpet; Two daughters of an aged stream (King Arthur); Let us wander
Beethoven The dream (Welsh Songs, WoO 155); Oh! would I were but that sweet linnet (Irish Songs, WoO 154)
Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade: Die Forelle
Bartok Eight Hungarian Folk Songs
Dverak Omens; The modest maid; The maid imprisoned; The pledge of love (Moravian Duets, Op 32)
12.30* Elisabeth Söderström and Kerstin Meyer talk to JOHN AMIS
12.40* Celebrity Recital: part 2 Duets by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Stenhammar, Frescobaldi, Carissimi, Rossini and Dvorak

A selection of wit and humour by women writers
Presented by Sheila Hancock ROSALIND SHANKS , JOHN GRAHAM and GORDON LANGFORD (piano) Research JEHANE MARKHAM
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON

Introduced by Patricia Hughei

"I wonder if people realise how many women composers there are. It's not their sex that matters, of course, but whether they write good music."
The words and music of some present-day British composers who happen to be women. Those taking part: Nicola LeFanu, Elizabeth Maconchy, Thea Musgrave, Phyllis Tate, Grace Williams

1932-1963
The death of Sylvia Plath marks the beginning of her period of greatest fame.
Seven women poets - ELIZABETH JENNINGS , JENI COUZYN , JEAN OVERTON FULLER. LOLA HASKINS , STEPHANIE SMOLINSKY , ELAINE FEINSTEIN and ERICA jONG-select and read a poem of Sylvia Plath 's which they particularly admire, and each introduces It with her own commentary.
Introduced by ALMA BICKERTON Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Part 2
This recital given by April Cantelo (soprano) and CHARLES spinks (harpsichord and piano) consists of songs and harpsichord pieces by women composers of the 17th and 18th centuries: Francesca Caccinl and Barbara Strozzi (of the Florentine and Venetian courts respectively); Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (a contemporary of Rameau) and the German Princess Anna Amalia.

(MARGARET THATCHER. Secretary of State, Education and Science)
SHIRLEY Williams. Opposition Spokesman on Home Affairs) Margaret Thatcher , mp, and Shirley Williams , Mr in conversation with Ian Mclnlvre
Producer ROSEMARY hart

Part 3
Portraits in words and music of Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Alma Mahler (1879-1964)
Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) The first two limited their composing in deference to the great men they married, but Ethel. 'the battling Dame,' fought the ridicule of the world at large and brought about the present-day acceptance of women as composers. ORIEL SUTHERLAND (meZZO-SOp) accompanied by DAVID WILLISON (piano) sings songs by all three plus gramophone records of chamber music by Clara Schumann. Ethel Smyth 's Overture: The Wreckers, and Archive recordings of the voices of Dame Ethel and Sir Thomas Beecham.
Narrators MARY wimbush and PETER BARKER

Jacky Gillott in discussion WITH Margaret Drabble , novelist, and Anthony Storr , author of The Dynamics of Creation Producer ADRIAN JOHNSON

String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No
In a performance by an outstanding Russian all-female group, the PROKOFIEV QUARTET (Soviet Radio recording)

Introduced by Meryl O'Keeffe

Margaret Howard examines how far the story of women's rights in England has really progressed.

Nadia Boulanger
The most influential teacher of her time ...
BERNARD KEEFFE discusses her unique contribution to music with former pupils and associates, including
AARON COPLAND , LENNOX BERKELEY HUGUES CUENOD , ROY HARRIS
VIRGIL THOMSON , STEPHEN HICKS and HENRYK SZERYNG
The programme also includes records of Nadia Boulanger conducting, and an interview with her. recorded in the week of her 86th birthday.

by CARYL CHURCHILL
This play, which takes a wry look at a ten-year-old marriage and at the plight of the working girl, was specially commissioned for today by Radio 3. The same age as Felicity, the leading character in Perfect Happiness, Caryl Churchill has so far written eight radio plays and had her first full-length stage play Owners produced at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs last year.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Jill Bennett is in ' Private Lives ' at the Globe Theatre, London) followed by an interlude

A programme of her records introduced by Ivor Newton in conversation with MERYL O'KEEFFE

An investigation by Frances Calrncross into discrimination against women in employment and the progress of legislation to deal with this problem. Producer SUSANNA CAPON

plays Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor
A gramophone record made in 1954, and introduced with an appreciation from one of her pupils, STEPHEN BISHOP

Suite No 2. in d minor, for unaccompanied cello played by Amaryllis Fleming who talks first about her experiences as a performer at Britain's music clubs

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BILLIE HOLIDAY
George Melly discusses the blues ' - bitter - sweet songs which owe their origins to the music of India. Arabia. Spain, the Caribbean and New Orleans, and ' the ladies ' who have made this style of singing their own.
Producers MIRIAM RAPP and ROSEMARY HART